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In order for an insurance company to have to pay on a work injury claim in Arkansas, the injury must, among other things, arise out of and in the course of an injured worker’s employment.\u00a0 In other words, the work injury must be a natural and probable consequence or incident of the employment and a natural result of one of its risks; for example, a machine operator’s hand becomes stuck in the machine she’s operating.\u00a0 An idiopathic injury is one whose cause is personal in nature or peculiar to the worker; for example, an office worker is walking back to his desk when his knee suddenly gives out and he falls to the carpet.\u00a0 The knee buckling could have occurred anywhere; the employee just happened to be at work when it did.\u00a0 Because an idiopathic injury is not related to the employment, it is generally not compensable unless the conditions of employment contribute to the risk by placing the worker in a position which increases the dangerous effect of the injury<\/em>; for example, an employee walking on a catwalk suddenly suffers a seizure, causing her to fall over the guard rail onto the concrete below.<\/p>\n Insurance companies love to try to defeat valid workers’ compensation claims by saying that they’re idiopathic and that the injury could have happened anywhere.\u00a0 We often see these folks spouting the idiopathic injury case law to injured workers, in an attempt to intimidate and confuse them into believing that they have no claim.\u00a0 If they’re saying that your work injury is idiopathic, give us a call to discuss your options, any time.\u00a0 When insurance companies make these idiopathic injury arguments, they are sometimes\u00a0very, very wrong<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Neal L. Hart, Attorney at Law[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column] In order for an insurance company to have to pay on a work injury claim in Arkansas, the injury must, among other things, arise out of and in the course of an injured worker’s employment.\u00a0 In other words, the work injury must be a natural and probable consequence or incident of the employment and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"
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